http://www.bvml.net/contemporary/JD_tsots.html
[PADA: We have not had the time to read through this in detail, just skimmed it over, and cannot vouch for its full accuracy, but it seems to have a lot of important history here that might be of interest for us. We'd invite some reviews from people who know the history better. As we are experiencing our own "break down" of splintering off camps, it might be instructive to see how this was going on after 1936 in India.
Srila Prabhupada once told us that many of the rank and file Gaudiya Matha people fell down after the movement was de facto disbanded. He said after many of these people left -- there were big problems with these people falling into maya, with wife swapping, scandalous behavior, former members sitting around in tea shops reading newspapers all day long, smoking beedis, and so on and so forth.
Hey, just like ISKCON had many / most of its former members "falling off into maya," including drugs, illicit sex, bank robbery, murders, and who knows what all. So this is a problem. Another problem is that when all of these camps began in-fighting, the preaching was stopped, another big issue we have going on as well.
We'd eventually like to see a detailed history to be made of this era using quotes from Srila Prabhupada and any other authorized sources, if there are any. Anyway, check it out, this is what happens when people are "ambitious to occupy the seat of their guru." Its not pretty. We are also hoping this will be instructive to all of us not to start what Srila Prabhupada said was "a fratricidal war" which ruined the Gaudiya Matha. At the same time, the good news is, the GBC's bogus guru's program is floundering and collapsing big time, and our idea of re-establishing Srila Prabhupada is growing, thats all there is to it. We will win in the end. ys pd]
[PADA: We have not had the time to read through this in detail, just skimmed it over, and cannot vouch for its full accuracy, but it seems to have a lot of important history here that might be of interest for us. We'd invite some reviews from people who know the history better. As we are experiencing our own "break down" of splintering off camps, it might be instructive to see how this was going on after 1936 in India.
Srila Prabhupada once told us that many of the rank and file Gaudiya Matha people fell down after the movement was de facto disbanded. He said after many of these people left -- there were big problems with these people falling into maya, with wife swapping, scandalous behavior, former members sitting around in tea shops reading newspapers all day long, smoking beedis, and so on and so forth.
Hey, just like ISKCON had many / most of its former members "falling off into maya," including drugs, illicit sex, bank robbery, murders, and who knows what all. So this is a problem. Another problem is that when all of these camps began in-fighting, the preaching was stopped, another big issue we have going on as well.
We'd eventually like to see a detailed history to be made of this era using quotes from Srila Prabhupada and any other authorized sources, if there are any. Anyway, check it out, this is what happens when people are "ambitious to occupy the seat of their guru." Its not pretty. We are also hoping this will be instructive to all of us not to start what Srila Prabhupada said was "a fratricidal war" which ruined the Gaudiya Matha. At the same time, the good news is, the GBC's bogus guru's program is floundering and collapsing big time, and our idea of re-establishing Srila Prabhupada is growing, thats all there is to it. We will win in the end. ys pd]
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